Environmentalism as a religion
Whether or not we all carry some sort of a “God gene” or are otherwise hardwired by the evolution for religious beliefs, it seems that spirituality of some sort has …
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What gender is your penguin?
Humanity has anthropomorphised animals since time immemorial, from hunters and gatherers to Disney – and animal rightists – so no wonder that the general contemporary madness of life is slowly …
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The misogyny of climate change denial
The obverse of the intersectionality of victimhood is the intersectionality of perpetration: In case it wasn't clear from the type of harassment that climate leaders like Greta Thunberg & Alexandria …
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Amazon pants on fire
Amazon rain forest is burning in Brazil and people are angry: When a fire tore through Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris earlier this year, donations poured in across the world at …
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Here come the eco-fascists
“The Washington Post” beat me to taking a closer look at the Christchurch, NZ, and El Paso, Texas, terrorist attacks carried out this year by two white supremacists against Muslim …
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The Prime Minister who broke the Pacific’s heart…
…and made them cry. Apparently: A Prime Minister has been brought to tears over Australia’s stalled efforts around climate change. Wrapping up the Pacific Island Forum held this week in …
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No planes, definitely trains, and maybe automobiles
This is what the Steve Martin/John Candy classic comedy would be like if remade by Greta Thunberg. In the Swedish version, Neal Page would never make it home for Thanksgiving …
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Why everyone should visit a mine
If I were a state education minister I would endeavour to make it a compulsory part of a high school curriculum for students to have at least one field excursion …
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Is this the weather or is this catastrophe?
Caught in a panic, there’s no escape for reality. Or is there? Democrats are far more likely to believe droughts, floods, wildfires, hurricanes and tropical storms have become more frequent …
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If I could have everyone read just one thing about climate change policy…
…this could be it. None of the contents are new or original, but in this longer-than-an-average-op-ed, Bjorn Lomborg distills all the elements of the argument he has been making for …
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Plastic fantastic
Last year, major Australian supermarkets have stopped using thin plastic bags to save the environment from more pollution. I don’t know about others, but I’m still using plastic bags as …
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The Woke versus the Poor
My favourite American urbanist and demographer, Joel Kotkin, writes how the quest for social justice so often harms the poor: Perhaps no issue more motivates progressive activists than social justice. Good …
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Chernobyl versus nuclear power
I don’t know whether it was the intention of the creators of HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series to scare the viewers’ pants off about the nuclear technology (I do know it was …
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The world to end; Millennials hardest hit
If Millennials strike many of their elders as rather feckless perpetual adolescents who live in the present and don’t think of the future, it might be because they actually think …
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Depressing them softly
Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
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The End is Nigh: Millennials hardest hit
Religious impulse must be strongly imprinted in a human psyche indeed. As fewer and fewer people seriously subscribe to traditional religions, the instinct and the patterns of belief merely get …
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Climate strike? How about nuclear first strike?
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …
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Yes, please don’t breed
There is now a group of some 60 men and women apparently, and no doubt growing fast, not least thanks to all the extra publicity, called Birth Strike. They, you’ve …
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Farewell to Carbs
In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds of years of successful history powering first the German Industrial …
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Green Deal, Gone Girl
Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …
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